You probably bulge as I do. In all the wrong places. Although my wife and daughter agree I belong in the NBA (No Butt Atall).

Welcome to the jungle, Scott! ;-)

"Are you being ironic, or do you have a problem with comprehension?"

Shit like that will always be good for a few downvotes Mike. You can do better.

the comment you lost points for started out questioning someone who has a post graduate degree, their ability to comprehend. you may disagree in this post, but you insist on throwing out wild ass accusations without backing them up with facts. This is why you lost points.
President Obama is a socialist, whose agenda is to destroy most of what this country was founded on. That's a fact. Every time that is brought up, one does not need to provide a detailed thesis backing that assertion or the consequences of socialist policies. There have been extensive posts on Common Core in here, including a post about Mr. Jebb Bush backing it. You are choosing to ignore evidence already presented.

I have no such "gang" as you put it. I don't force anyone here to espouse any opinions I may have. Theirs are from their own experiences, etc. that they choose to feel as I do, well, that's their choice; I have not coerced them into making them.

I also so not name call. Anybody. I don't disparage them in a public forum. If I disagree, I use tact. Your opinions are your own. I respect that. I don't respect infantile diatribes.

You think that I am a bully. I think that you have a gang. Minus 4 for me; Plus 6 for you. I said before that the conservatives here follow the high school cafeteria model of social media. Give yourselves a group hug.

"Individualism" and "collectivism" are not just political philosophies. They are what Jane Jacobs called "Systems of Survival" i.e., how you get along in the world. You warn me that if I criticize other people's ideas that I will stand alone; but I already do.

I still love a tuna sandwich...but can't find the Wonder bread that made me from a 90lb weakling, into the bulging hulk that I am today!

The following quote on parents, children, and education comes from the Communist Manifesto. Marx to Dewey to the NEA to Common Core to you.

"Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.

But, you say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.

And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, etc.? The Communists have not intended the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.

The bourgeois claptrap about the family and education, about the hallowed correlation of parents and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all the family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labor."

1. This is from UTAH, not Massachusetts or Illinois. So, the deluded politicians who empower progressive teachers to pump children's heads full of lef twing propaganda are apparently conservatives.

2. Myself, as a writer, I appreciate the fact that this lesson plan shows children how OTHER PEOPLE use emotionally-laden words to manipulate their opinions. It works both ways.

3. Remember that Hillary Rodham started her political career in Youth for Goldwater. You have no way to predict what this child or that will learn from this lesson or from some other.

Ahhh, the Catholic fish on Friday, but yours had a twist, and I don't mean the thing to close the bread....

Lol, fend for yourself! Poor guy ;-)

it's a kathywiso post:
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/13...
chilling

hahahahahahhaha ha ha I can't respond hahahahahaa

She did make a killer tuna salad sandwich...which I had to eat every Friday.

I saved some of the maps, and I have all of the then current 48 states.

Was it a local map or of another state. Local, she just wanted you to see new things and gather new experiences. If another state, she wanted you to take along time seeing those new sights and gathering those new experiences. Either way, your life was enriched. See, she had your best interest at heart.

LOL this explains a few things.

"...they were encouraged to stay away from home as much as possible."

You just 'fixed' one of my childhood scars...I always felt that my Mom didn't really love me.

She would send me off to school with my sandwich wrapped in a road map.

the kids were happy because they played lots of games and got to do sports. they were encouraged to stay away from home as much as possible and went to club meetings after school full of indoctrination

It was the first introduction of the "brown shirts" those people had. I remember that one! She was saying people were falsely talked into believing that giving up their firearms was for the good of all, and would in return ensure they had bread. It was the beginning of the end.

OK. you're painting with a broad brush here. Nationalized education is far different from "home education." After all, General Reno (a democrat appointee) is the one who caused mass death to "home educators" not conservatives(whether you and I would have agreed to the curriculum or not). There is a wonderful personal story in here, someone help me find the post! of a german woman talking about the beginning of nationalized education in Germany post WWI. Separating children from their parents to educate isn't necessarily the bee's knees. Even if you disagree fundamentally with how they are taught at home, studies show those children grow up to be better at independent/critical thinking than children sent through national education programs as a whole. I ask you go dust off your Lord of the Flies copy and re-read.

OK, this has only happened to me a total of about 8 times in the last 20 years.

I had to look up the meaning of abstruse.
It wasn't bad, because the dictionary [the fat one that lives under the office work table] gave me "incomprehensible", "esoteric" and "difficult to understand" in the definition, which fit your use perfectly. [I did know the Latin, though]

johnrobert, I award you 10 word geek points. Use them well.

Saul Alinski Rules For Radicals Rule #5 ; "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." This is all you are, Mike. Most of us in the Gulch think Reason is man's most important weapon. Especially against people like you. Go away Mike.

try it with the susan B anthony and they call the cops

Can't wait to hear if any one had a clue.. :-)